Jimbo1212 said:
And again, you don't answer the question but dance around the issue like a politician.
No, I
ALREADY ANSWERED THE QUESTION and
COMPLETELY EXPLAINED IT.
Most people are not able to explain why they like the colour blue better than the colour red or are more sexually attracted to penises rather than vaginas. Sometimes your opinions or your tastes, "just are". And there's no further explaining them. It's not dancing around the issue to say "I just like cute things" or "I like the colour blue", or "I'm not attracted to women", it's just AN ACCURATE ANSWER. By itself, it is an accurate answer. And you won't accept that accurate answer, so the only thing left to do is to tell you that.
Jimbo1212 said:
Unless you can give reason behind an opinion, it is sadly worthless and baseless and you should think about why you even bother posting if you can't reason your actions.
Most opinions are just that. And do not require any further reasoning, and can thus just be simply stated as a reason. They're anything but worthless or baseless. They're the most important things to every human who holds them. And calling that worthless or baseless is asking humans to justify their most basic desires. You say you're not asking people to justify anything, but you are. Because you're calling people's tastes and desires and opinions invalid and asking people to explain why they like cute things and not asking people why they would like gritty crud.
There is no explanation, many people just happen to like something different than that gritty stuff. There is no further explanation needed. And people who like it have no reason to question why they do anymore than people who love macho dudes shooting stuff.
But if you really wanted to delve into the depths of why people like what they do, and demand an explanation you don't deserve, I may have to back out on my principle of not explaining psychological motivations for heterosexuality and other ridiculous mess. maybe people like cute things in games because it caters to their nurturing side, while games about shooting stuff because of an inner psychopath that wants to be fed. That's why many people want to ban violent video games. And they won't accept a "childish" excuse of "I just do lol" for why they like SHOOTAN GAEMS. And see the desire to play dem shootan gaems, as a sign of psychological problems. Sunshine is scientifically shown to make humans happier, also, bright colours in human beings tend to more be associated with utopia or things going right . Video games represent the fanciful, and when video games are bright, fanciful, and something they can't do in real life, people often tend to like that.
Gritty games are only able to instill either cathartic, "I'm not alone" horror type games or other negative, yet positive feelings. Sort of how screamo doesn't really contain positive emotions, but can be cathartic in a "scream-a-long" catharsis sense. Or fulfill other very specific fantasies, such as the power fantasy, feeling badass in a bleak or otherwise depressing world. But colourful, fantastic, fanciful, fantasy games are able to be happy and bright for the sake of being happy and bright. It's the brain's function to seek pleasure and avoid pain. Pleasure is, well, pleasurable, and pain, is, well, painful. Exceptions like masochism would still be more defined along the lines of pleasure than pain, or one wouldn't be motivated to do it.
Cuteness, bright colours, and the like remind people of peace and prosperity. Something a lot of people want in their lives, especially if they work a stressful, unfulfilling job like most adults do. Personally, I'd rather relish in escaping to a better place when the world around me is stressful, rather than relishing in negative emotions like taking out frustrations with co-workers negatively.
Of course, none of this needed explaining. This is no better than when I explained why I'm more attracted to penises than vaginas, and why I like the colour blue better than the colour red. An opinion and taste is just an opinion and taste. Asking someone to explain it and justify it merely because they said something along the lines of "I don't like that crap", is ridiculous.
Jimbo1212 said:
Why? Because they don't like gritty crap and you do? Because they prefer cute crap and you don't? People don't have to "ask themselves" why they like the more cutesy, bright, or unrealistic and fanciful side of things anymore than the people who like the gritty, dark, macho, and realistic side of things?
You said "who else
really likes that other than
little girls?"
When being given a response in terms of sales that show multiple demographics, including a healthy adult demographic, you wrote it off as being misguided, inferior nostalgia, and then said "again, I would question why people like such a thing".
That's asking people to justify their tastes and opinions. That's asking people to justify why they like something other than that gritty crap.
But you won't accept an explanation no matter how ridiculously far someone goes. Because you label every explanation as "insufficient" and push the question further, as if you'll latch onto something that shows the opinion as inferior. Even labeling people liking bright things as "avoiding the question, why do people like bright things". Which isn't any better than asking why some people like the colour blue. Why? Because you won't accept accept the idea that liking cute bright fantasy crap isn't inferior to liking gritty grimdark crap.
It's like asking someone why they're homosexual because you're sure there must be some kind of unhealthy, malignant psychology there in. All I said was I don't care about graphics when it's used for that kind of aesthetic, and you could have just left it at that. But no, you decided this personal taste was in need of "questioning", because you didn't like it. Well guess what? Our opinions are awesome.
